Law schools averaging multiple LSAT scores?

Law school admission officers are "lying" if they say they take the average of multiple LSAT scores.

The U.S News rankings only consider the highest score. And law schools only have to report the admitted students' highest score to the ABA. So law schools have no incentive to average multiple scores. This changed in 2006 - before the change, the ABA required them to provide the average score of admitted students, which was what the US News rankings used as well. Law schools might still say they consider all scores in order to give the appearance of being more holistic. But there's absolutely no reason they would average when it's against their interests to do so.



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